The Osceola times., 1887-11-05
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
TESTIMONY at the coroner's inquest in
/ the Benhayon case at San Francisco leads
to the conclusion that Benhayon was
| poisoned.
NTHE Pam Handle Railroad Company
paid 5000 as a compromise for the killing
I of Joseph Rich and child, the injury of
Z his wife and he loss of team. The acci-
| dent was the result of fast running at a
bad crossing.
on the 9th John Glass, aged sixty
years, resident 81 Loretto, Pa, while
/ driving pair OF horses over the railroad
I crossing at Lilly's station, was struck by
/ the day express and fatally injured. Both
horses were Instantly killed.
SYsTEMATIc robbng of freight cars ON
the Southern Pacific railroad has been GO
| ing on for six months between Tuscon,
Ariz., and FL Paso. Detectives have ar
rested j. Griffith, freight conductor, and
Charles Eddy and J. Burchmel, freight
brakemen. The evidence pointed strong
ly 10 them. All confessed their guilt and
implicated others.
The argument of the motion for a writ
OF error In the case OF the condemned Chi
cago Anarchists was concluded in the
United States Supreme Court at Washing
ton on the 2Sth
TRAIN wreckers threw n Rock Island
train from the track, near Morris, His, on
the night of the 27th, killing two men.
TESTIMONY taking was virtually con-
cluded on the 2sth, in "Blinky" Morgan's
trial at Ravenna, o.
CLEARANCE CRAWFORD, n young man of
Ottawa, Kas, was killed in a railroad ac-
cident in Maine, on the 2Sth.
NICHOLAS BUTTE, mate of the White
river steamboat Joe Peters, was Killed by
a negro deck-hand at Memphis, Tenn, on
the 2sth
Two mon were killed and a number ln-
iured on the 2Sth, by the explosion of
chemicals in a carriage factory at Cleve-'
land, o.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire swept over the
Omaha (Neb.) fair grounds on the 2Sth,
burning all bat one Of the buildings,
sheds, otc. Loss. S25 900.
THE saloon of Peter Camp, at Russia
VILE, two miles west Of kokomo, Ind, was
blown up by dynamite on the morning Of
the 2Sth, as well as livery stable adiorn
ing. A man who slept in the stable was
badly injured.
THE American ship Fanon was torn
from her anchorage at Dantzig during the
recent storm on the Baltic aud came into
collision with three barges laden with
sugar, sinking them and inficting damage
TO the amount Of $50 600.
LIMA GEIssERT, aged twenty six years,
the maniac daughter of John Geissert, a
well-known Milwaukee (Wis.) saloon.
keeper, eluded her keeper on the 2Sth, and
after saturating her clothing with kero.
sene oil set fire TO her person. She was
burnt in a shocking manner and will
probably die.
NEAR New Burlin gton, eight miles south
Of indianapolis, Iud., on the 2Sth, Pat
Sheckley shot James Carey twice, in
flcting wounds from which he died in IA
few hours. Sheckley then placed the re-
volver to his own head and fired, killing
himself instantly.
JosEPH BRUCKNER, German, aged
thirty.ive, employed in the barb wire
mill at Allentown, Pa, while tempo
rarlly insane, on tho 2sth, made an at
tempt TO kill his wife, but she succeeded
in escaping from tho house. Bruckner
then deliberately cut the arteries of his
wrists and his throat from ear to ear, dy.
ing in half an hcur.
PHfLIP CRoss and John O'IIara were
found at Alpena, Mich, ON the morning Of
the 2Sth, in the saloon Of the former, un-
conscious. O'IIara hdd bullet in his
head, and Cross had his head chopped
open with nm axe. 1t is supposed they
fought together. Both were fatally
wounded.
HAPPY Bon VAN BRuNT the murderer
of VIII Roy, at Warsaw, n. Y, was sem
fenced ON the 29lh to be hanged December
next.
OSCAR liUGo WEBER, convicted at Phil.
adelphia Of the murder of James Martin,
the South street ieweler, has been sem
fenced TO be hanged,
ADvieTs from Tonto Basin, Ariz., bring
news OF the killing of a cowboy named
VIM. Benner. Bonner is supposed 10 be
the man who recently robbed the stage
fifteen miles north Of Fort Apache.
THE propeller Vernon has becn lost on
Lake Michigan, north Of Manitowoc, Wis.
The entire crew, consisting of twenty.
two persons, is supposed to have per.
ished.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in the
post-otlice at Fairmont, Neb, and stole
: 200 worth of notes and couple of deeds
belonging to Postmaster Sawyer, besides
about 500 in stamps aud currency.
THE jury in the case Of John Robinson,
charged with the murder OF John Hop
kns in July last at McKee's Rocks, near
Pittsburgh, Pa, rendered a verdict of
murder in the second degree. The Jury
had been out five days.
HENRY +. LINCOLN prominent citizen
Of Brocktom, Mass, and member Of the
Legislature, who has been Unidentified with
number Of large enterprises, committed
suicide on the 29th by shooting.